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Takeshi Koike (小池健, Koike Takeshi) (born January 26, 1968) is a Japanese animator, illustrator and film director.

Something of a protégé of Yoshiaki Kawajiri, he was also influenced by Yoshinori Kanada, Frank Miller, Mike Mignola, and Katsuhito Ishii. He went straight from a high school education to beginning his career at Madhouse as an in-betweener on works directed by Kawajiri after being interviewed by him. His first professional work as director is the title sequence of the 2000 film Party 7; while his first feature film is Redline, which premiered in 2009 and was released in 2010. He served as character designer and animation director for 2012's Lupin the Third: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine, and directs film continuations of it starting with Lupin the IIIrd: Daisuke Jigen's Gravestone in 2014. Work outside of animation includes the artwork for the 2004 Dreams Come True single "Yasashii Kiss o Shite".

Filmography

Director

Other work

• The Foxes of Chironup Island (1987) In-Between Animation
• Wicked City (1987) - In-Between Animation
• Legend of Galactic Heroes: My Conquest is the Sea of Stars (1988) - Animation Check
• Bride of Deimos (1988) Animation Check
• Demon City Shinjuku (1988) - Animation Check
• Legend of the Galactic Heroes 1st season (1988) - Key Animation (Ep 19)
• Goku: Midnight Eye (1989) - Animation Check, Key Animation
• Goku II: Midnight Eye (1989) - Key Animation
• Yawara! A Fashionable Judo Girl (1989) Key Animation (Ep 1, 18)
• Cyber City Oedo 808 (1990) - 　Mechanical Animation Director,　Key Animation (Ep 1, 2, 3)
• Teki wa Kaizoku: Neko no Kyoen (1990) Key Animation (Ep 1, 2)
• Nineteen 19 (1990) Key Animation
• A Wind Named Amnesia (1990) - Key Animation
• Urusei Yatsura: Always My Darling (1991) - Key Animation
• Doomed Megalopolis (1991) - Assistant Animation Director (Ep 1, 2), Key Animation (Ep 1, 2, 3)
• Giant Robo: The Day the Earth Stood Still (1992) - Key Animation (Ep 1, 6)
• Ninja Scroll (1993) - Key Animation
• The Cockpit (1994) (segment Slipstream) - Key Animation
• True Peakock King (1994) - Character Design, Key Animation
• Clamp in Wonderland (1994) - Key Animation
• Darkside Blues (1994) - Key Animation
• Mighty Space Miners (1994) - Opening Animation, Ending Animation
• DNA² (1996) - Mechanic Design, Opening Animation
• Bio Hunter (1995) - Key Animation
• Memories (1995) (segment Stink Bomb) - Key Animation
• X (1996) - Key Animation
• Birdy the Mighty (1996) - Key Animation (Ep 1–4)
• Cardcaptor Sakura (1998) - Key Animation (Ep1, 57)
• Jubei-chan - Secret of the Lovely Eyepatch (1999) - Animation Director (Ep 10, 11)
• Cardcaptor Sakura: The Movie (1999) - Key Animation
• Carried by the Wind: Tsukikage Ran (2000) - Key Animation (Op, Ep 1, 5)
• Hidamari no Ki (2000) - Key Animation
• Fighting Spirit (2000) - Key Animation (Op 1, Ep 20)
• Cardcaptor Sakura Movie 2: The Sealed Card (2000) - Key Animation
• Blood: The Last Vampire (2000) - Key Animation
• Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (2000) - Setting Design, Key Animation
• WXIII: Patlabor the Movie 3 (2002) - Key Animation
• Texhnolyze (2003) - Key Animation (Ep1)
• Dead Leaves (2004) - Key Animation
• Samurai Champloo (2004) Key Animation (Opening Animation, Ep 5)
• The Taste of Tea (2004) - Animation Director
• Funky Forest (2005) - Animation Director
• Iron Man (2010) - Mechanical Design, Key Animation (Ep 1, 7, 11)
• Trigun: Badlands Rumble (2010) - Key Animation
• Lupin the Third: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine (2012) - Character Design, Animation Director, Episode Animation Director (Ep 1, 13), Key Animation (Opening, Ep 13)
• Yasuke (2021) - Character Design

References

1. ^ "TS60 : Takeshi Koike - Tokyo Source Page 2" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 25 February 2014.
2. "TS60 : Takeshi Koike - Tokyo Source Page 1" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 28 December 2013.
3. ^ "OUTSIDE IN TOKYO : Takeshi Koike & Katsuhito Ishii" (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 7 December 2021.
4. "Why You Can't Miss Redline: An Interview with Director Takeshi Koike". Tor.com. 2 November 2011. Archived from the original on 17 November 2012.
5. "Takeshi Koike - Animatrix Director: World Record" (Interview). Interviewed by REDPILL. Translated by Mike Arias. intothematrix.com. July 2002. Archived from the original on 22 February 2014.
6. "New Lupin III TV Anime's Staff, Cast, Title Revealed". Anime News Network. 7 March 2012. Archived from the original on 7 October 2014. Retrieved 13 September 2014.
7. "Redline's Koike to Direct Lupin the IIIrd: Daisuke Jigen's Gravestone Film". Anime News Network. 20 March 2014. Archived from the original on 27 September 2014. Retrieved 13 September 2014.
8. "Focus On: Takeshi Koike" (in French). Catsuka. Archived from the original on 7 October 2011.

External links

• Takeshi Koike at IMDb
• Takeshi Koike at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
• Filmography:Takeshi Koike Sakuga@Wiki(Japanese)
• Takeshi Koike on Twitter
• Web Anime Style Animator Interview: Takeshi Koike (Japanese)

• 1968 births
• People from Yamagata Prefecture
• Anime directors
• Japanese album-cover and concert-poster artists
• Japanese animators
• Japanese animated film directors
• Japanese film directors
• Japanese illustrators
• Living people
• Madhouse (company) people